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Three suggestions from our doctors...
1. Look on the Internet
You can also search for pain management physicians by contacting the two organizations that issue board certifications. The two organizations are ASIPP and ISIS.
To contact ASIPP, visit their web site at www.asipp.org
To contact ISIS, go to www.spinalinjection.com
If you find the name of a pain management physician who has board certification from both societies, she/he is probably well trained. Beware! When you visit a new doctor: you should also know that if you are taking high doses of oral pain medications, a new physician may not be willing to refill your existing prescription! |
2. Maybe your current doctor can help you.
Ask your current physician before your last appointment if she/he can recommend an interventional pain management physician in the area where you are relocating. If your physician does not know of anyone in the area, the physician will be happy to confer with other colleagues to help you find the name(s) of a good doctor who is board certified in their specialty, pain medicine, and has a good reputation
If a patient is moving to the area where their current physician lived or completed training, the doctor may be able to personally recommend some pain physicians who he/she knows personally.
All three of our physicians, Doctors Bedder, Frey, and Daitch, are active in the most important pain management organizations at the local, state, and national level. Our gregarious doctors meet pain physicians throughout Florida and all over the world. They all travel for educational and political issues impacting pain medicine.
Dr. Daitch and Dr. Frey have both had the surprise of treating patients who have been previously treated by former colleagues from other cities! They have also "shared" patients (that live seasonally in Fort Myers) with their former associates who treat the same patients up north in the warmer weather! It is a small world! |
3. Keep a long distance relationship?
Most romantic long distance relationships are expensive, time consuming and retrospectively not worth it. However, some long distance doctor/patient relationships may worth maintaining!
When patients find doctors that really listen to them, examine them, and decrease their pain, their relationship is usually long term. Our doctors' goals are to enable you to return to a life with less pain or no pain. They want you to be able to go back to work and contribute to your family and community.
If you are reluctant to leave the wonderful doctors and caring staff of Advanced Pain Management & Spine Specialists, consider commuting to us!
Believe it or not, we have numerous patients that drive hours from all over Florida or fly in for their office visits! We appreciate our patients' loyalty, and we try to accommodate their schedules.
It is so difficult for patients to find competent pain physicians who listen and have experience treating patients with the same conditions. Many of our patients tell us that they have been to many types of doctors, but they have not felt better until we fixed them! They adamantly refuse to leave our practice and find a new pain doctor. Therefore, we assume that some of our patients know there are some long distance relationships that may be worth sustaining! |
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